Ash-screen for grates



' (No ModelJ J. D. VANCE.

ASH SCREEN FOR GRATEVS. No. 865,954, Patented July 5, 1887.

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ASH-SCREEN FOR GRATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 365,954, dated July 5, 1887. Application filed December 15, 1886. Serial No. 221,656. {No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OIIN D. VANCE, of Oincinnati in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in AslrScrcens for Grates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to open fire place grates; and it consists in a novel construction of that portion of the grate or fire-place known as the ash-screen or crown-plate.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a-front elevation ofa grate supplied with my invention; Fig. 2, a detail perspective view of the screen; Fig. 8, a vertical sectional view on the line 3 3, Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a view of the detachable lug or lip 011 the screen. Fig. 5 is a perspective of one end of the grate-frame, grate, and screen,viewed from their inner sides, and showing the manner of supporting the screen in an elevated position.

In the drawings, theletter A indicates the grateframe; B, the grate or fuel-basket; O, the ash-screen; D, the ash-pan, and F the hearth. The screen 0 is mounted in vertical grooves a, formed in the inner edges of the go jambs A, and guided therein by the fixed lugs c at one end of the screen and the removable lug c at the other end of the screen, the upper lug, c, and upper lip or flange of the lug a falling into the lateral recesses a, formed at the top of the groovcsa, and retaining the screen in the elevated position shown by dotted lines of Fig. 3. By'drawing the upper edge of the screen slightly forward the lugs c and 0" will be released from the lateral recesses a, and the screen will drop to its normal position on the hearth F, as shown in full lines.

By my invention the screen is a movable but permanent part of the fire-place, and when raised to remove the ash-pan is held in its elevated position until its top edge is drawn outward to release the lugs or lips c 0 from the lateral recesses a at the upper ends of the vertical grooves a. In this my invention differs from Patent No. 354,501.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In a fire-place grate, the combination of the grate-frame A, having its side jambs, A, provided with vertical grooves a, having at their upper ends the lateral recesses a, with the ashscreen 0, having the lugs o 0, adapted to slide vertically in said grooves to enter the lateral recesses to support the screen in an elevated position while removing and replacing the ash-pan, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to the foregoing specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN D. VANCE.

\Vitnesses:

CHAS. ANDERSON, CHAS. L. SHANNON. 

